Dating Tips for the Unemployed, Iris Smyles
Dating Tips for the Unemployed, Iris Smyles
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Dating Tips for the Unemployed

Author: Iris Smyles

Narrator: Amy Landon

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2016


Synopsis

Iris—the narrator and heroine—guides the reader through twenty-four episodes from her life, pausing now and then for meditations on love, sex, work, loneliness, insomnia, arctic exploration, cannibalism, the Higgs boson, Greek mythology, memory, costumes parties, time travel, Rocky I, II, V, IV, VI, and III respectively, literary immortality, real estate trends, and growing up and growing old.

Evoking the screwball heroines of a bygone era as she often finds herself a little lost in her own, Iris ventures blithely into the future, and Smyles collects the flotsam of her past. An encyclopedic, absurd, lyrical, and louche picaresque about that awkward age—between birth and death—when you feel like you don't know at all what you're doing.

About Iris Smyles

Iris Smyles is the author of several books, including Dating Tips for the Unemployed, which was a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her short stories have been awarded the Geraldine Griffin Moore Award, the Adria Schwartz Award, and the Dorris Lipman Prize, among others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucinda on August 16, 2016

Dating Tips for the Unemployed is a charming, fun, and poignant read. What I most appreciated was its structure – you can start at the end if you like, or the beginning. Each chapter is a self-contained story, which may or may not be memoir, not that it matters. I love Alice Munroe’s way of reading.......more

Goodreads review by Carole on July 17, 2016

When I read the summary I felt like I had no choice but to read it. It is something different and unique, but with the same message that books like this want to get out: finding yourself and finding where you belong. Hilarious and sad all at the same time. I loved the main character - Iris. She was......more

Goodreads review by Callie on March 22, 2017

When is Goodreads gonna get it together and let us do half-stars??? I give this one THREE AND A HALF STARS. When I started, I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to continue. It felt like each story, each scenario, each conversation was designed to show off the sheer wonder and delight of our one-of-a-k......more

Goodreads review by Justin on November 15, 2016

Easily one of my favorite books of this 2016 year of reading! Dating Tips is written almost wildly and I love it! I relate to so much of Iris writes in the book. Cynical and desperate while hilarious at the same time. I had to put the book down at least 3 times because I couldn't stop giggling. My f......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on July 18, 2017

The humor was cliche but well-done and well-written. I was not familiar with the author before stumbling across this book but her writing gives you very good insight into the type of person she is. I was in the mood to get out of my head and looking for something easy to digest- and this was good fo......more